Re: [gentoo-user] emerge portage error

2010-05-18 Thread Barry Jibb
On 16/05/10 14:44, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sunday 16 May 2010 15:10:16 Simon wrote: Hi, Please help me to get rid of this error while emerging portage: # emerge portage [snip] Yea gods, the youth of today. In my day, when I was a little whipper-snapper, we actually read the ebuild.

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge portage error

2010-05-18 Thread Mick
On 18 May 2010 13:11, Barry Jibb barryjibbsausages...@gmail.com wrote: On 16/05/10 14:44, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sunday 16 May 2010 15:10:16 Simon wrote: Hi, Please help me to get rid of this error while emerging portage: # emerge portage [snip] Yea gods, the youth of today. In my

[gentoo-user] emerge portage error

2010-05-16 Thread Simon
Hi, Please help me to get rid of this error while emerging portage: # emerge portage Calculating dependencies... done! Verifying ebuild Manifests... starting parallel fetching pid 6030 Emerging (1 of 2) dev-lang/python-2.5.4-r4 to / * Python-2.5.4.tar.bz2 RMD160 SHA1 SHA256 size ;-) ...

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge portage error

2010-05-16 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 16 May 2010 15:10:16 Simon wrote: Hi, Please help me to get rid of this error while emerging portage: # emerge portage [snip] Yea gods, the youth of today. In my day, when I was a little whipper-snapper, we actually read the ebuild. Why because? Because there was no-one else

[gentoo-user] emerge portage

2008-04-18 Thread robert anstuther
Hi, I am new to Gentoo so accept my apologies if this is a blatently stupid question. I want to install the latest version of a package on our site, on checking the various gentoo boxes I discovered that the versions of the package varied a lot. therefore I ran emerge --sync this worked fine but

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge portage

2008-04-18 Thread dirk.heinrichs.ext
Am Freitag, den 18.04.2008, 13:09 +0200 schrieb ext robert anstuther: I am worried that I mess up my kernel by proceeding You can only mess up your kernel by recompiling it with the wrong options set in the kernel config and then use it at next boot. portage _never_ compiles a kernel. It just

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge portage

2008-04-18 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 18 April 2008, robert anstuther wrote: Hi, I am new to Gentoo so accept my apologies if this is a blatently stupid question. I want to install the latest version of a package on our site, on checking the various gentoo boxes I discovered that the versions of the package varied a lot.